The House, you can, you can be a chair of a committee because you get more people to vote for you. And you. So by a soft. By. When you're a sophomore, you can become a chair of committee. The way it works here in the Senate is the longer you sit on the committee, you'll eventually become the chairman. That doesn't mean you're the best person for the position. You just outlived everybody else. When they get there, it becomes territorial. They feel like they've earned it because they sat there longer than everybody else. (09:23–09:29)
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Asserts that in the Senate, committee chairmanship is based on seniority rather than merit.
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